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Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

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Leader
  
Rauff Hakeem

Founder
  
M. H. M. Ashraff

Religion
  
Islam

Secretary
  
Hasen Ali

Founded
  
1981

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

Headquarters
  
Dharussalam, 53, Vauxhall Lane, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (Tamil: ஸ்ரீலங்கா முஸ்லீம் காங்கிரஸ், Srīlaṅkā Muslīm Kāṅkiras; Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් කොංග්‍රසය Sri Lanka Muslim Kongrasaya) is a political party in Sri Lanka.

It is one of the parties that represents the Muslim community of Sri Lanka.

History

The party was formed at a meeting held at Kattankudy in 1981 by a small study group of local Eastern Province political leaders.

At the last legislative elections in April 2004, the party won 2.0% of the popular vote and 5 out of 225 legislative seats.

References

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Wikipedia


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